Reordering the Middle East: The Assads and the Tyranny of a Minority | EUROtoday

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A Syrian opposition fighter tears up a picture in Aleppo that shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his late father Hafez al-Assad.

For a long time, Syria was a mafia state by which proximity to the ruling household decided all alternatives and life paths. How did this truly come about?

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